“Theoretical Puppets” use puppets of Deleuze and Foucault to discuss social theory and philosophy Jennifer Sandlin, Boing Boing, May 10 2023. [Editor: See the Theoretical Puppets category on this blog for all the Foucault related episodes] If you’re a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—”Theoretical Puppets.” …
Mark G.E. Kelly, The farce of the fifteen-minute city. Foucault and petty utopianism, IAI News, 17th May 2023 The 15 minute city has become a byword for modern planning, sustainability and the good life. To some it is a conspiracy designed to keep people in their place. However, through an understanding of Foucault, the allure …
Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre: Macron and Civil War in France, Diakritik, 1 mai 2023 English translation by Colin Gordon (PDF) French original in Diakritik We say a lot of bad things about Macron and the recent forced passage through France’s parliament of the pensions reform law. He is said to …
Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval et Pierre Sauvêtre: Macron et la guerre civile en France, Diakritik, 1 mai 2023 On dit beaucoup de mal de Macron à propos du passage en force de la réforme des retraites. On le dit égotiste, arrogant et tout sauf habile. On oublie qu’il est l’homme de la situation, …
David McGrogan, A Foucauldian Defense of Liberalism, Law & Liberty, March 27 2023 We should not settle for the nominal freedom of a relentlessly micromanaged society. There is a strong case to be made that Michel Foucault was the most important and influential thinker of the second half of the twentieth century. He was not …
Andrey Gordienko, The Epistemic State of Exception, The Philosophical Salon, 3 April 2023 Agamben’s “Configuration of Facts” and Foucault’s “Regime of Truth” In “The Central Bankers’ Long COVID,” Fabio Vighi observes that the contemporary paradigm of government by crisis fosters a rhetoric of exclusion, which neutralizes dissensus and positions the official narrative of emergency capitalism …
Saffron Huang, Chat GPT and the death of the author, The New Statesman, 26 February 2023 In 1967, in an essay called “The Death of the Author”, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes argued that people should stop viewing the author’s intentions and biography as the ultimate source of meaning in a text. A text’s …
L’abécédaire de Michel Foucault. Revue Ballast 25 janvier 2023 […] nous prolongeons la discussion en 26 lettres. Anormal : « Par pensée médicale, j’entends une façon de percevoir les choses qui s’organise autour de la norme, c’est-à-dire qui essaie de partager ce qui est normal de ce qui est anormal, qui n’est pas tout à …
Adam Kirsch, Why more people want human extinction: climate change, an AI ‘singularity’, and merging with a cosmic flow of data, South China Morning Post Magazine, 29 Jan 2023 Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel …
Octave Larmagnac-Matheron, Vaccin pour abeilles : quand la biopolitique touche les animaux, Philosophie magazine, 23 janvier 2023 C’est une première : un vaccin pour abeilles domestiques a été autorisé aux États-Unis. L’objectif : protéger les insectes contre la bactérie Paenibacillus larvae qui décime les ruches, et par conséquent la filière apicole. Foucault y verrait peut-être …
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